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Price, Volume, Chart Patterns, and break out trades.

Forget the basic candlestick. Get a chart with h,l,o,c and volume and trade some chart patterns. Keep it simple.

You can look and look and never find the perfect formula. I spent hours and hours back testing all types of combinations of indicators using AmiBroker. I have found using moving averages and a few other indicators/calcs to get a idea of market direction to show when is the best time to be...

First start by removing all indicators from your charts and get familiar with some chart patterns. This may sound like you are missing something, but once you do this, you will find that price action is much clearer, and you will find entry points. To many indicators cause confusion, yes...

Keep it simple, draw your resistance line and place a buy stop over the line and get filled. Put your stop at a level of support that makes sense. Once you are fill move your stop up to a point under the break out, or the low of the day. This is how I trade flags. I have used...

If you do not want to write code take a look at StockFinder. http://www.worden.com/Products/StockFinder/ If you are interested in learning to write some code take a look at AmiBroker or NinjaTrader as another person mentioned. I have used AmiBroker for many years and what you are...

I use AMIBroker love it, but I am also a software developer. I used it to developer a great timing model mtrig.com but I have had limited success on individual stocks. I have been tweaking and writing systems for a while and wondered if Neuroshell may have some better features to help with...

SmallTalk is the daddy of all OO languages. Try to find a job in SmallTalk it is few and far between stick with Java or C# .NET.

C# is my development language of choice. I have coded in VB, C++ but by far C# is the most up to date (by MSFT) and once you know C# you can code... Java, JavaScirpt, and understand the syntax better of many back testing software packages such as AMIBroker. MTRIG.com (from my account name)...

Two More. . . OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. - Mark Twain There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when...

Take a look at ProShares SHORT products http://www.proshares.com/funds?products=&fundType=Fixed-Income

P P C. This stands for "Preserve Precious Capital" - Marcel Link, the author of High Probability Trading

akdrmeb, I have to say I like it, it does provide sense of calm, and if these trades were taken by first making some analysis, and not just rolling the dice, then your "affirmation" really fits the bill. Makes me think of the SNL Skit where Al Franken looked in the mirror and said "I like...

A prior posted mentioned ETFs... iPath has all the futures based ETFs you would ever want.... http://www.ipathetn.com/product-information.jsp Track iPath ETF - Daily, Weeky, Monthly performance here http://www.mtrig.com/MarketView.aspx

I did not mark every +2 -2 so as to just highlight some trades, so I understand what you are saying about bias. The other cases where it reached these levels the market turned, it may not have been a win in each case, but the wins are large enough that when using a stop loss, referencing other...